Tag: "Keith Olbermann"
Five by Five Episode 15 – The Comeback!
Five by Five, the fastest podcast on the internet*, is back! We went on hiatus for a while but the break is ovah! You can participate in future Five by Five videocasts, too. If you have a topical subject, politics or no, on which you’d like to see me opine for a whole minute, drop [...]
Maybe Someone Finally Realized that MS-NBC is a Business
Stacy McCain has a point about Keith Olbermann I’ve yet to see anyone else make. Oddly enough, it has nothing to do with Demi Lovato in a bikini. Looking at cable ratings, I’m having a hard time figuring how Olbermann, who draws fewer than 400,000 viewers in the 24-54 demo on an average night is [...]
Olbermann: I’m So Righteous, Joe Biden Even Came to Me for Help
If you had an anger management problem, to whom would you turn for help? I, like most ordinary sane people, would look for someone who had mastered calmness, who could turn an insult into a biting humorous retort, and who could diffuse a tense situation with calmness and confidence. In other words, most of us [...]
Keith Olbermann Suspended for Embarrassing His Boss
So, MS-NBC decided that Keith Olbermann’s donation to a few Democratic candidates was enough to earn him an indefinite suspension, huh? It’s good to know that the network’s rather generous ethical guidelines do have some limits. I have no intention on joining the growing chorus of conservatives who have taken up their various Implements of [...]
Today, We Can Kill the Teabagger Bogeyman in Massachusetts
I hesitate to further the progressive meme that conservatives are baby-eating, blood-sucking night terrors that lurk in the all-concealing shadows waiting to feed upon the tears of humanity, but when I see the utter despair into which the mere thought that a semi-conservative might win a Senate race in Massachusetts has thrown the journalistic world, I [...]
It’s Not Every Day When A Book Which Should Have Been Used As A Doorstop Is Cheaper Than An Actual Doorstop
. How would you like to own a document that the shining star of a major news network called “a primary document of American history” that would one day become a history textbook? Well, today is your lucky day! In fact, if you have a dollar, you can own three copies of Scott McClellan’s book [...]
When Reading the News is Like Accidentally Peeking in on a Cybersex Session
Front page of the Washington Post today. Page A01. Being elected president forces a man to take inventory of his life, so Barack Obama has trimmed his schedule to the bare essentials. He’s not in the White House yet, but gone are the hours he once spent reading novels, watching television and obsessing over the [...]
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